Kevin Tighe
2) Race the sun
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1996.
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher inspires her misfit students to believe in themselves by getting them to build a solar car and enter it in an international competition.
3) Newsies
Publisher
Buena Vista Home
Pub. Date
[2002].
Language
English
Description
July, 1899: When Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst raise the distribution price one-tenth of a cent per paper, ten cents per hundred, the newsboys, poor enough already, are outraged. Inspired by the strike put on by the trolley workers, Jack "Cowboy" Kelly organizes a newsboys' strike. With David Jacobs as the brains of the new union, and Jack as the voice, the weak and oppressed found the strength to band together and challenge the powerful....
Publisher
Columbia Tristar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
Betrayed by the Army's legendary "Indian fighter" General George Crook, Geronimo leads a small band of warriors in escape, but is pursued by a principled officer, a grizzled army scout, and a gung-ho West Point graduate.
Publisher
Lion's Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
The chilling tale of Dr. Joyce Reardon, an obsessed psychology professor who commissions a team of psychics and a gifted 15-year-old autistic girl, Annie, to literally wake up a supposedly dormant haunted mansion - Rose Red. Their efforts unleash myriad spirits and uncover horrifying secrets of the generations who have lived and died there.
Series
Publisher
TNT Originals
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
In the 1800s, thousands of Mormons set out on a treacherous trail for the promised land of Utah. Among them was young Miles Utley, one of controversial prophet Brigham Young's loyal followers and trained protectors. But when sharpshooter Miles averts an assassination attempt on Young, instead of gratitude from the congregation, Miles is beaten and left for dead. Rescued by a church elder's unhappy wife, he learns of a conspiracy against Young.
7) Matewan
Series
Criterion collection volume 999
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Written and directed by John Sayles, this wrenching historical drama recounts the true story of a West Virginia coal town where the local miners' struggle to form a union rose to the pitch of all-out war in 1920. When Matewan's miners go on strike, organizer Joe Kenehan (Chris Cooper, in his film debut), arrives to help them, uniting workers white and black, Appalachia-born and immigrant, while urging patience in the face of the coal company's violent...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal. The young, idealistic White Sox players who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a money-making scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes--Container.